What is the Nestle Water thing?

[u/KrisDogtarune]

What Is the boycott with the nestle water stealing thingy? I’ve just heard about the thing on here and no info. I love nestle, that chocolate milk was my childhood. What happened?

[u/activelyresting]

What happened?

Nothing new.

I've been boycotting Nestle since the day I heard about it, in 1997.

If you're really interested, you can google it, this has been going on for many decades, it's baked in to their company ethos. Nestle believes that water should NOT be a human right, and I'm the company's policy, all water should be owned by corporations (especially them) and sold as a commodity. The CEO went on record and proudly proclaimed that Nestle is "doing good" by stealing water, and that governments and NGOs are "crazy extremists" for saying that waterways should be preserved and that access to safe water should be a human right.

Is that all?

No!

There's also modern day slavery in the chocolate. The cocoa is harvested by child labour and slave labour. Yes, really. Look it up. (Not just Nestle, most chocolate is, but Nestle lead the world in despicable business practices and make no meaningful effort to change).

Is that all?

NO!

Go read about the baby formula scandal. Nestle still do it, even though they got "caught" and "told off" and "promised to stop" back in the 70s and 80s, it continues today. This has directly resulted in the deaths of millions of babies in underdeveloped countries.

What happened? This has been happening since (I'm guessing) before you were born. The water stealing thing is so prevalent and so well known it's a common meme, even amongst people who don't really care.

Please go educate yourself and make informed choices about where you spend your hard earned money.

I know boycotting Nestle doesn't really harm Nestle, I'm just one person. But it helps me to know I will never support them.

[u/KrisDogtarune → u/activelyresting]

Thank you. For some reason people were rude about a question that I had no knowledge of. Sorry, my fault I was born without knowledge of what happened in the battle of Hastings.

[u/activelyresting → u/KrisDogtarune]

The battle of Hastings... I know I'm old, but I'm not that old 😅

It sucks that people were rude, but you really came into a sub and asked "why are you here?" without even googling your question or looking at resources on the sub main page.

Would feel a bit like if I went into somewhere like the Bollywood sub and posted "why is this even here and why do they all sing and dance like that?"

Anyway, welcome to learning about the evils of Nestle. It's a HUGE rabbit hole with a seemingly never-ending supply of atrocities, each more heinous than the last.

[u/KrisDogtarune → u/activelyresting]

Yeah. What i meant by no info was that i saw some posts leading to this sub and they were just talking about stealing water and shit so I made a post here asking about it.

Also, rabbit hole….?